SlowBro

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by SlowBro 8y ago
Also, from my (very much outsider) observation of the legal profession there seems to be a lot of boring work that probably could be automated. So maybe not lawyers themselves, but legal helper workers, will increasingly be replaced.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
There is yet another path to survival: 1) Do a startup
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by SlowBro 8y ago
This seems more of a theoretical attack than a practical one; have there been known to be any attacks on old encrypted data with known vulnerabilities? If this is not a problem today would it be a problem in the future?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Are you saying that’s good or bad?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Dang I think I would at least use some masking tape or something
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by SlowBro 8y ago
So, wait. Their models are S, 3, X, and now Y? Clever.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
What are the takeaways? Best practices that can be learned from this and applied? Two factor, unique passwords, Google Authenticator, what’s else?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Misleading title. Doesn't mention using credit cards to travel for free. > Get married, it will probably double your income. Halved mine. Worth every penny.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Or paste the URL into FakeSpot. Although I have found FS to be incorrect at times, flagging reviews as legit when they clearly are not. It's becoming more and more widely known that there are numerous items with fake reviews, and Amazo
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by SlowBro 8y ago
> Sometimes it's even more simple re-inventing the wheel than understand why a wheel was build a fractal design When I saw your comment I immediately was reminded of Joel on Software: "The single worst strategic mistake that
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by SlowBro 8y ago
In the case of the Target breech one had to be transferred to the unlisted extension first. So it's not as though it's a phone number exposed to the outside world.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
My doctor, a general practitioner, recently dropped all insurance. His prices are still affordable. And I can still submit my work receipts for compensation to my insurance carrier.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
2.X would still be included as an optional package, correct? I couldn’t determine that from the link, but it seems like RedHat’s practice. Or, they could install it from source. If so, 2.X users still have two years or so to migrate. That’s
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Exactly. Maybe we should not ask them to regulate what they do not understand?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
I would love it if more people were taught entrepreneurship such as what YC is doing, so that more people could afford rent. I was not taught this stuff in school.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
It’s the world we live in. Ask me personally what I think and I’ll tell you it’s a God-given right to start a business with little government mettling. In the real world, especially one largely run by statists, it’s considered a privilege.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
If it’s profitable could you demonstrate your profitability and outlook to investors so that you could afford better help?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
$800 to obtain the privilege of operating in one of the world’s largest economies seems like a bargain to me. Were I one of those small businesses I would find some way to get that funding. A loan, a credit card, something. There are plenty
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Curious, I found the economist's (Alex Tabarrok) response to the article about himself: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/04/ec... The concluding paragraph is important: ---- "L
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Yep, not me personally, but a majority of voters in my country chose these senators.
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Aren't these the same people who were being asked to regulate ISPs during the net neutrality debate?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
I don't understand why "dumb" remote control bots are not used more often in battle. Some guy in a bunker pilots a tank or airplane into battle. He's safe and is able to stay out of harm's way. Remote control is ver
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by SlowBro 8y ago
> New York’s vacancy crisis is due to the same factors that wiped out malls and chain stores across the United States: the rise of online shopping, private-equity takeovers that saddled retailers with too much debt, and shoppers’ changi
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by SlowBro 8y ago
I can't imagine it'll always be DOA, but perhaps the 'D' in DOA stands for delayed? In my lifetime driver assistance has grown from power steering to ABS systems to traction control to stability control to smart cruise t
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Which I suppose would create a vacuum for teachers in CA, which I suppose would cause a schooling crisis, which I suppose would cause the people to cry out for increases in teacher salary to fill the positions, which I suppose would cause g
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by SlowBro 8y ago
There is a very attractive draw to California and places like the Valley for the potential for money to be made with the right connections and people. So a tech startup would likely consider the high cost of living to be just another startu
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Even landlords renting property?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
Outcomes like these seem to be why the founders of the United States wanted to avoid setting up a direct democracy, instead opting for a constitutional republic.[1] [1] http://factmyth.com/why-did-the-founding-fathers-choose
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by SlowBro 8y ago
How would you fix this?
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by SlowBro 8y ago
> And that creates competition between localities. That's intriguing. Sets up locations as a sort of free market, if I am not mistaken. Prices are controlled by where people want to be instead of artificially enforced.

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